Ejay Hire schrieb: > Sadly, I have to take exception to the suggestions to "reply to spam with > your contact address" and "sign up for free porn". By the loosest > definitions, you are "asking" for spam when you do this. > > The other suggestions, posting to bugtraq and usenet, are excellent ideas. > > Also, An excellent way to get more spam is to unsubscribe from spam with the > target address. This seems to work REALLY well. > > -ejay > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Neale Pickett > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 4:53 PM > To: dovecot@dovecot.org > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Getting more spam > > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 2:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> What is a a spam sink, can you redirect it via MX records? > > It's just a mail account that gets nothing but spam (I hope). It seems to > be well-seeded on the spam CDs so I'm sure to get the same kind of spam that > a real person would get, just that this account gets nothing else. I don't > know if it gets a truly accurate sampling of spam though: by now the address > may have been removed from the more expensive spam CDs, despite my efforts > to keep it secret. Or maybe somebody's trying to poison it with > custom-crafted spam, in an attempt to throw off training data. I kind of > doubt it but who knows. > > I can't turn the firehose on to you with MX records, sorry. For a while I > had a mail list set up that people could subscribe to, in order to get a > mirror, but that turned out to be a bad idea. If you (or anyone else > reading this) would like to get at my spam I'll need to have some assurances > that you're not a spammer looking to somehow taint my precious river of pure > spam. > > What a crazy world. > > You're probably best off following Jay's suggestions. It won't take long > for spam to start coming in. Another suggestion is to surf a lot of porn > and sign up for as much "free porn" as you can. Not only do you get loads > of spam, you also get to surf for porn and call it classwork! > > Neale >
to unsubscribe from spam is are really funny idea, thx for that joke *rofl -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen Best Regards Robert Schetterer https://www.schetterer.org Munich/Bavaria/Germany